Important Themes in Animal Law and Policy: 2022 Annual List
30 Dec 2022

Important Themes in Animal Law and Policy: 2022 Annual List

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We’ve been doing these lists since 2015 and it’s become something of an annual tradition. But it’s also important for animal advocates because this assessment brings perspective to our work. We often celebrate a victory for the animals to discover … Continued

“Deer and Wolves and Bobcats, Oh My!”: UPDATE
10 Feb 2022

“Deer and Wolves and Bobcats, Oh My!”: UPDATE

by | posted in: Activism, Advocacy, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Hunting, Legislation, Michigan Legislature, Natural Resources Commission, Urban Deer, Wildlife, Wolves | 0

Timing is everything, and within hours of posting this article, important news broke. The US Fish & Wildlife Service order removing gray wolves from Endangered Species Act listing was “vacated” by US District Judge Jeffrey S. White, meaning that gray … Continued

Who Can Speak About Wolves?
31 Jan 2022

Who Can Speak About Wolves?

by | posted in: Advocacy, Analysis, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Hunting, Legislation, Michigan Legislature, Natural Resources Committee, Wildlife, Wolf, Wolf Management Advisory Council, Wolves | 0

Very few people indeed, if you listen to some in the Michigan Legislature and other pro-hunt proponents. Some members of the Michigan Legislature who represent the Upper Peninsula, joined by a number of their colleagues “Under the Bridge”, have long … Continued

Lunch + Legislation #10: What’s Up with … Wolves
2 Aug 2021

Lunch + Legislation #10: What’s Up with … Wolves

by | posted in: AFA Presentation, Analysis, Congress, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Endangered Species Act, federal agency, Hunting, Legislation, Lunch + Legislation, Michigan Legislature, Natural Resources Commission, Uncategorized, USFWS, Wildlife, Wolf, Wolf Management Advisory Council, Wolves | 0

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AFA Named to Wolf Management Advisory Council: We Ask a Wolf Advocate What it Means
29 Mar 2021

AFA Named to Wolf Management Advisory Council: We Ask a Wolf Advocate What it Means

by | posted in: Activism, Advocacy, Department of Natural Resources, Endangered Species Act, Endangered Species Act, Hunting, Natural Resources Commission, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wolf, Wolf Management Advisory Council | 0

EDITOR’S NOTE: Nancy Warren is Executive Director of the National Wolfwatcher Coalition and a resident of the western Upper Peninsula who has advocated on behalf of wolves for nearly three decades. After AFA was named to the new Advisory Council, … Continued

Speaking Out to Protect Alaska’s Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
9 Nov 2020

Speaking Out to Protect Alaska’s Kenai National Wildlife Refuge

by | posted in: Advocacy, Analysis, bear, Federal, federal agency, Hunting, National WIldlife Refuge, NEPA, USFWS, Wildlife | 0

Today Attorneys for Animals responded to the latest in a long series of proposed regulations issued by the Department of Interior which weaken the Endangered Species Act; or priviledge oil and gas and other industrial uses of the land; or … Continued

They All Matter
9 Sep 2020

They All Matter

by | posted in: Advocacy, Analysis, Endangered Species Act, Federal, federal agency, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, USFWS, Wildlife | 0

You’ve likely never heard of the American Burying Beetle. Neither had we, until the species was downgraded from “endangered” to “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency charged with administering the Act. … Continued